+++ATH0

May 28, 2006

Breaking some rules

Normally I make an extra effort not to post anything work related here. That gets a bit confusing as much of my work revolves around the stuff I'm interested in (i.e. software development, security, reliability, and employee motivation). The almost disappearance of my blog has been largely due to an edict from on high recently made that can be summed up as "no personal blogs". Since I've maintained this well before working for them, I feel I've got some wiggle room. In the wake of a massive re-org that has been on the verge of announcement for weeks now, it turns out that freedom may not be so explicit. They do of course encourage employees to maintain an internal only blog, which is kind of an interesting thought... in an incestual kind of way.

On top of that, my hosting provider has informed me that my IP has been under a rather consistent DoS attack now. Having been forced to provide some reason for it, I couldn't because frankly I hadn't known about it. Still don't know why it happened. Anyhow, end result was an IP switch and hopefully some more stable service not DoSed. If anyone has any idea why this happened, or how to track it back further, I'm game for hearing your ideas.

Posted by Dan at 04:27 PM | Comments (0)

May 03, 2006

Beer

While I hate the interface Forbes.com uses, especially those for "slideshows" of things, it does have an interesting collection on there today about the "Coolest Beers" (found via an article on wired.com).

I'd switch out a few for sure...

The Chimay Blanche, while a great beer, is not my favorite Chimay. The Grande Reserve. Although I'm happy to see any Chimay in that list.

I'd have included the Leffe Blonde/Brown either would work. Depending upon if you want a lighter style beer or not. I might have subbed this for the Rare VOS, although that's an excellent beer as well.

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale should be nixed. I admit to not being a fan of the pale ale, or the bitter beer fascination many beer drinkers have. That has a large part of my dislike to Sierra Nevada. But I find after about 1/2 a bottle SNPA I'm ready to stop drinking, and thats a bad change.

The Censored Rich Copper Ale from Laguintas Brewing could probably be removed too. I've tried many of their beers, and while I think this is their best, as far as an American beer to compliment this list, I could think of a few better. I'd look over at Victory Brewing or Flying Fish.

Liberty Ale, while tasty, could be ranked with the Yuengling Lager. Call it hometown pride, but I find both of these breweries to be releasing beers so similar in flavor, it's not funny.

Posted by Dan at 12:22 PM | Comments (0)

October 07, 2005

What the...?

Who was the idiot at Yahoo that allowed this abomination of an ad on their front page? Very very annoying. At least it only runs once.

Posted by Dan at 12:52 PM | Comments (0)

October 02, 2005

Restructuring

Looks like in my great update to the MT server software I forgot to add my external reading. That's now fixed if you care to see what I'm reading lately...

Posted by Dan at 05:55 PM | Comments (0)

June 17, 2005

Feeds

Supposedly my feed wasn't working as a full feed again. I think I fixed it. Let me know if that's not true.

Posted by Dan at 04:38 PM | Comments (0)

June 12, 2005

Gurgle Splatz

I got fed up this morning with my inability to update the main index page for this site, so I've re-installed all of MT. The new look will only last until I can fix the rest of it and be happy. Yip-ie. Enjoy the change.

Posted by Dan at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)

February 06, 2005

Where do they come from?

Spammers. I hate them, and they've become a scourge on the internet world. I've decided to disable trackbacks entirely as the incoming attempts at spam are awful. The fact that I've not really bought into the trackback concept before certainly didn't help to dissuade me from this.

Too bad I haven't gotten MT-Blacklist working yet. It just doesn't want to be enabled for the site (some silly error keeps popping up).

Posted by Dan at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)

January 20, 2005

nofollow

Currently taking guesses on how long until the comment spammers figure a way around the rel:nofollow addition to Google, Yahoo!, and MSN? In any case, I've got mine... wooohaa.

Posted by Dan at 12:58 AM | Comments (0)

December 04, 2004

Yet more junk

It seems that whenever I attempt to let things be, it never lasts. Somehow my MT2.6 install became corrupted in a recent series of server crashes. It's very odd, but essentially I decided to upgrade to MT 3.1 at the time. Nice new pretty interface, and it seems very similar to what I've been used to. Only it took me a few extra days to figure out the upgrade system. Apparently the instructions are not all that inclusive. Thanks SixApart.

Posted by Dan at 01:13 AM | Comments (0)

October 28, 2004

Comment spammers are back!

This morning at 12.45 it appears the comment spammers have returned, originating from IP Address 203.113.29.1 it only took them 16 days to discover the name change. Oddly enough the piece of spam was actually posted to that article originally. I was half tempted to leave it there.

Scanning through the web server log files I find the IP address 62.252.128.15 regularly scanning the comment system on here. I'm wondering if banning that IP address range would provide any better coverage.

Posted by Dan at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)

October 19, 2004

Comment Spam followup

Originally I had thought the turn around on the bots discovering the name change would actually take about two weeks. I based this idea solely on the amount of traffic this site receives on any regular basis, which isn't very much. It seems my initial guestimate was wrong though.

66.130.168.166 - - [14/Oct/2004:19:24:06 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/dank/mt-feedback.cgi?entry_id=233 HTTP/1.0" 200 4632 "-" "-"

and...

62.252.128.15 - - [15/Oct/2004:13:12:21 -0700] "GET /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/dank/mt-feedback.cgi?entry_id=233 HTTP/1.1" 200 4651 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

both were found in my web server logs from last week. None have tried making a posting yet, but I'm guessing that will be coming in a short bit now.

Posted by Dan at 01:17 AM | Comments (0)

September 06, 2004

Disclaimer!

This isn't my favorite part of logging my ideas, but I feel it's probably necessary to some extent. Besides that, it's also useful. This is my disclaimer.

When I am writing in this forum, or sending e-mail from my personal accounts, I am speaking only for myself. On occasion I may write about things relating to my employer, Intel Corporation. When I do, I am not a spokesman for my employer, I am not representing my employer, nor my employer's opinons, nor my employer's interests. These are my opinions alone, and do not represent the official position of my employer. I am speaking for me, as an individual.

Because I may link to an article, piece of media, or another posting please do not assume that I agree with the author of said linked concept. Don't assume that opinions I post on any forum are those I agree with. If you don't understand how that can be, please go research the concept of "devil's advocate".

Sometimes I am wrong, and hereby grant myself the ability to change my mind on an issue. I know it's hard to believe as some of you have never been wrong in your life, but I'm not that smart and often don't get it right the first time.

[EDIT: Thanks to Eric and Chuq for the premise, layout, and content ideas. ]

Posted by Dan at 06:48 PM | Comments (0)

August 09, 2004

Updates not a go-go

Updates will be slow for a few days. Packing and moving to a new place have taken a top priority right now, and internet access is sporadic at times. Goods times were had though recently when Charles and I went to the Yuengling brewery. Free beer is always good.

Posted by Dan at 12:05 PM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2004

Where'd All the Comments Go?

It's finally happened. I've reached the point of no longer having the desire to continue the fight. As of this morning, I have disabled comments on this blog indefinately. Typically the level of comments on the blog isn't very high, with one comment for every 10 or 12 posts coming from legit readers. As of recent though I've been receiving 4 comments for every post, mostly from spammers trying to use my site to sell something. I had installed Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist, and it was good for awhile. Recently it's not been heading off the storm quite as well and my patience for spamming has disappeared. So too have the comments.

If you have any future commentary to leave, I suggest either sending an email, where I will add it to the entry itself, or the use of track-backs.

Things I have learned from this though, Movable Type is really awful for making mass changes to an entry. You can do basic alterations, but anything that requires more than changing authors, topics, and names you're pretty screwed. Thank you for a PostgreSQL interface for doing this. If I have the time to hack it, I might just write up a cron job to open up comments again and close those that are N days old. That requires incentive though, and I've none of that today.

Posted by Dan at 11:57 AM

June 15, 2004

Name change

It seems that I have been rather lax on updating the local blog, and this is something I want to change. With this in mind, I've also decided that I'm tired of having Google queries from people looking for a movie better known as G-SUCKS-ease, and so you will now be seeing an updated blog better known as +++ATH0.

For those that don't recognize the reference, it's the Hayes AT command from the old modem days to disconnect. At some point in the early Internet history days, there was a bug in the Windows OS where sending a +++ATH0 over the wire (say in an IRC chat) would cause a windows based modem to disconnect.

Posted by Dan at 11:23 AM | Comments (0)

June 01, 2004

Orkut

Looks like I've got myself an Orkut account now. Feel free to add me into your fray. Too bad it isn't very stable at the moment, seems like it could be fun for a little bit. All these timeouts make you feel a little, umm, frustrated.

[EDIT: I apologize to all of you who are now getting requests from me. That's going to a lot of people. :) Now just shush up and add me damnit! ]

[EDIT 2: I'm thinking of renaming Orkut to be Or-couldn't or maybe Or-Not. I've seen more Squid proxy connect errors on Orkut than any other time I've used Squid. Ew. ]

Posted by Dan at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)

April 26, 2004

Bouncing connections

It seems today that no matter what you do, your internet connection isn't safe. Starting on Wednesday of last week, the server that houses everything here came under an ICMP redirect attack. The whole event seemed poised to try and take down the root name-servers, and eventually we watched as our bandwidth disappeared to nothing. This stopped sometime Thursday morning but left us in a slightly incapacitated state, where the connection was now just instantly unstable. After 5 days of more down than up time, it seems that the ISP has been able to correct this and the connection, albeit slow, is now holding strong. To any and all who might have emailed me in the past 6 days or before hoping for a response, you will get one (very) soon. Honest, I tried to respond, but the server disagreed with me.

Choice conversation snippets I had with the ISP include:
Them: Are you sure the network configuration didn't change?
Me: Well, it's not standard for a UNIX machine to lose it's config on the fly like that, but maybe a stray electron from a solar flare flipped a few bits so I'll double check that. Oh wait a second, I can't do that.
Them: Why?
Me: Because your router isn't responding, which makes my machine inaccessible to the outside world.
Them: So you can't confirm your network configuration?

Posted by Dan at 08:34 PM | Comments (0)

March 18, 2004

Spammy comments

Well joy of joys, I've finally sat down and figured out why my install of MTBlacklist wasn't working. It is now working, thank you said comment spammers for giving me the motivation to make things works. Issue with install was a mis-configuration on my server end, not allowing the pm files to be loaded. This has been corrected, and those responsible have been sacked.

Posted by Dan at 04:23 AM | Comments (0)

February 26, 2004

ecto vs KungLog

Having been reluctant to upgrade from Kung-Log to the latest and greatest replacement for it (ecto), I've finally begun to use it a bit.

Things I like:

The interface has been thought out a bit better. It looks cleaner, is easier to deal with a few tasks, and overall is consistent with the themes of the operating system.

It's now much more intuitive to select multiple Categories for a posting, something I've mentioned to Adrian as a bug in the past (he quickly corrected me on this).

Trackback additions are easier to manipulate and control.

Things I don't like:

Why oh why do I constantly have to add a summary to a post? I don't like to use summaries, and frankly, I don't care for them. From what I've found so far, it's possible to turn this off, but why would should it be turned on a default option? If a summary is to be a default option, it should clearly be found on the main screen of operation, not via a button to another page on the screen.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with having the Entries and Drafts section become a window of it's own. I haven't used it enough yet to decide if it's better as a standalone window, or if it should have been integrated with the main screen.

The HTML option seems almost usable now, but I still find myself hand typing in the HTML code vs using the HTML drop down menu.

One feature I would like to see incorporated is the ability to delete and alter comments to a posting via ecto.

Posted by Dan at 11:30 AM | Comments (0)

February 25, 2004

Moron Web Surfers

To the dismay of many, yes I am still alive. This is just going to be a short and sweet little post to deal with something I can't stand any further. To the moron web surfers, who seem to collectively come from AOL, who cannot figure out how to use Google properly, fuck you too.

If you're looking for the god awful script to that horrible movie Grease, it's not here.

If you're looking for some of the Grease music, it's NOT HERE.

If you wish to learn how to stop being such a fuckup, and want to use Google right, go here. Quit blaming me for your inability to use a search tool, or more importantly your inability to read the search results.

What I would like is for Google to all meta tags to define what your page does NOT have.

Posted by Dan at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)

January 07, 2004

Practical Jokes

Recently spotted online, a practical joke gone the route of the extreme. I've witnessed jokes similar to this (painting a coworkers office entirely pink, turning everything backwards, etc) but never at the home level. At least he won't have to worry about aliens reading his mind...

Posted by Dan at 07:35 AM | Comments (1)

October 30, 2003

Spam Comments part 2

My initial intention was to throw together a quick and dirty hack that would see if my concept would even work, that is piping an MT comment through SA or DCC. The failure in this process has proven to be my lack of understanding in Perl and/or the MT plugin architecture, and resulted in a 30 minute hack to a 5 hour exploratory adventure.

There have already been a few revisions on this idea. Originally I had planned to make a MTSpamComment tag that would wrap around the current MTComment tags. While an interesting idea, I realized this isn't really flexible enough so I moved towards implementing a global filter. This way you can change the <MTCommentText> to include the optional variable spam_compare=1 > and you could potentially include it anywhere else (maybe Trackbacks). This would work all fine and dandy, but I seem to have hit a snag where my knowledge of the MT plugin system, and the mechanics of Perl have broken down to sheer chaos.

First question becomes, is anyone aware of a means with which to debug what might be wrong? Maybe I've been spoiled by my recent dive into GDB, but for some reason I have to believe that there is a more descriptive error message than:

[Thu Oct 30 09:08:34 2003] [error] [client 151.196.45.74] malformed header from script. Bad header=Possible unintended interpolat: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/cgiwrap that exists for the MT Plugin system. You can see the simplistic Perl code in the extended entry (thats about all that's there). This is almost enough to convince me to move to Serendipity.

[EDIT: corrected HTML tags]

I figure I may as well share what I've been doing code wise too, since it will probably help make things a bit easier to understand. You'll find better Perl code in this world, I've never claimed to be a Perl hacker (C and PHP do everything else I need).

package MT::Plugin::CommentSpam;

use MT::Template::Context;
use MT::Comment;
use dccifd/dccif.pl

my $fuz1 = 10;
my $fuz2 = 10;

MT::Template::Context->add_global_filter(check_spam => { &spamc } );
MT::Template::Context->add_tag(

sub spamc {
my $text = shift;
my $curr_tmpl = shift;
my $arg_value = shift;

switch ($arg_value) {
case 1 {
@proc_args = ("dccproc", "-Q", "-H", "-i", $text);
system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?"

/* now check for the resulting changes in $text */
if (($text =~ /\bFuz1=many/) ||
($text =~ /\bFuz2=many/))
$text = "This comment has been deemed to be spam";
if (($text =~ /\bFuz1=$fuz1/) ||
($text =~ /\bFuz2=$fuz2/))
$text = "This comment has been deemed to be spam";
last }
case 2 {
// future work for Spam Assassin usage
last }
};

return $text;
}
1;


Posted by Dan at 06:36 AM | Comments (0)

October 29, 2003

Blog Spam

Thanks to Kyle for pointing out that one blog spam comment did make it through despite my best efforts to not allow this. I've been reading about the rise of blog spam for awhile, and some of the current ideas on how to battle this or what it might even look like.

Unfortunately I don't think it's going to go away anytime soon, but I think an MT plugin that handled comment spam would help. For example take each incoming comment field, pipe it through Spam Assassin or DCCd and give it a procmail like examination. I'm sure the hack for doing this could be easily accomplished if my Perl skills were of any quality type. I personally don't see a difference between spam email and spam comments, except for the fact that spam comments have no useful headers. Hrm, maybe I will try hacking up a quickie test...

Posted by Dan at 08:49 PM | Comments (0)

September 29, 2003

blogroll additions

Politech recently had a post announcing the start of a blog by Warren Slocum revolving around the concept of accountable elections. Check it out, it's worth reading. You'll also find it on the right.

Posted by Dan at 12:36 PM | Comments (0)

July 29, 2003

Lack of Updates

No I haven't forgotten about my tutorial for the new ODBC PHP stuff, and no it's not that I've fallen off the face of the earth. Been rather busy actually just getting life in order, and trying to find a new host for my server. Once this is all done, and the move will be happening in 24-48 hours, I'll be back to posting on a more regular basis. Stay tuned for a few more days, some of the things to be posted:

odbc_connect()
odbc_set_env()/odbc_get_env()
odbc_set_connect()/odbc_get_connect()
Elevator Madness part 3

Posted by Dan at 03:45 PM | Comments (0)

July 25, 2003

Colocation and hosting

Anyone happen to know a relatively low cost colocation provider to suggest? I need a single static IP, and about 40kbps of bandwidth (can be made less). The challenge becomes the case, the machine is in an ATX tower only, not a U mountable system.

Posted by Dan at 04:07 PM | Comments (4)

July 15, 2003

Links

To those of you who may have linked to this website in the past, it's probably broken. I spent sometime today (while installing Panther) to correct the URI's for the archives. In the past they weren't exactly to spec, and while they worked, it resulted in many 404 errors for browsers that did not automatically HTMLize a space character. James Cox sent me a URL about another site that accomplished exactly what I was trying for, only the were successful with the archive URLs and I wasn't. Turns out the big difference is to use the dirify option and not the urlencode option for Moveable Type. What an odd notion.

Posted by Dan at 04:51 PM | Comments (1)

July 02, 2003

Future Reference

When making an entry to test that a Title has been made URI compliant, ensure that the test case actually isn't compliant. Doh!

Posted by Dan at 02:50 PM | Comments (0)

URIness

It seems that my original attempt at making useful URLs was only half-complete on this site. James pointed out today that my links (on the Recent Entry side of things) were not URI compliant. Odd. Upon inspection he was right, and I began to work towards correcting this. Now for wackiness that is Moveable Type.

I found the entry under "Weblog Config"->Archiving to alter. I set the MTEntryTitle flag to have the encode_url value to 1. This should work on any new input (this post being a test of that theory), but it didn't correct the recent postings problem. With this in mind, I began to search for a way to alter this.

Under the Templates->Main page, I discovered the Recent Entry portion. Setting the encode_url value to one here caused adverse effects. Mainly, the entire URL was repeated twice in the space, while properly escaping the Title portion. This really isn't useful as no file on my backend has a title that consists of "http://" as of yet.

Any readers good with MT hacking have a suggestion?

Posted by Dan at 02:49 PM | Comments (0)

June 24, 2003

Added Links

I added in two new outbound links today to PHP developers. Andrei Zmievski a long time developer whom I got to meet while in Montreal, and Zak Greant whom I met at the PHP International Conference in 2001. Both very cool people, with some interesting outlooks on various interests.

Posted by Dan at 08:49 AM | Comments (0)

May 14, 2003

Summary

This photo summarizes pretty much the past 10 days for me.



Posted by Dan at 07:45 AM | Comments (1)

April 26, 2003

Future Crawlers

Awhile back I remember Microsoft claiming that they were going to get into the search game. While I can't find the specific article off hand, I did notice this in my most recent robot access log:

131.107.163.46 - - [26/Apr/2003:20:54:49 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 237 "-" "MicrosoftPrototypeCrawler (How's my crawling? mailto:newbiecrawler@hotmail.com)"

Looks like they are starting to make good on this promise. Now spammers do your thing...

Posted by Dan at 06:05 PM | Comments (0)

April 08, 2003

RSS Feeds

Thanks to Marko for pointing out that my RSS feeds were not full feeds, but rather the horrible MT excerpt system. I think I've fixed this now, but if you run into more trouble, do please let me know.

Things I haven't got working yet, how to get an Extended Entry portion to be noted in the RSS feed. I'm open to suggestions from other MT users.

Posted by Dan at 08:50 AM | Comments (0)

April 01, 2003

blog value

So it seems to be making the rounds, and I decided I should check it out.

My blog is now worth $252.38. Not a bad asking price for my thoughts... although Mr. Sterling's blog has become the .blog bubble pusher. We'll see how long that lasts until his bubble bursts.

Update: corrected the TrackBack to Sterling's post.

Posted by Dan at 10:56 AM | Comments (0)

March 24, 2003

Trackback sucks

It seems that my initial change to the means of post archiving to a more useful and understanding labeling mechanism has resulted in the infamous... no trackbacks working. Suggestions are welcome to try and fix it.

Posted by Dan at 08:12 PM | Comments (1)

March 18, 2003

hard drives

They live, they die. Much like this one. Always at an inopportune time.

Posted by Dan at 06:00 AM | Comments (0)

March 16, 2003

hostnames

James Cox has an interesting domain name hosting setup going on. Now http://dank.blogs.at points to me again.

Posted by Dan at 07:13 AM | Comments (0)

March 15, 2003

Archiving update

To those of you who may have at one point added a TrackBack link to my page... it no longer works. My archiving into a single directory started to annoy me, so I changed it into a multiple directory based upon topic name schema. Sorry to be a bad blogger....

Posted by Dan at 03:49 PM | Comments (0)

March 03, 2003

Kung Log Bug

While I very much enjoy Kung-Log, it seems there is one big bug with it. All use of the return key is not reflected in the entry.

While in MT direct mode it is. Please note the difference between log entries.

Posted by Dan at 07:36 AM | Comments (1)

February 26, 2003

Testing out Kung-Log

It was suggested by George that I should give Kung-Log a try. So I am. Initial use, I like it a lot, the interface is easy to navigate, and even easier to setup. If I can keep it working offline as well as online, I think he'll find a donaton coming in quicker and quicker.

Posted by Dan at 08:14 AM | Comments (0)

February 23, 2003

Hacking Gallery code

After my little tirade about the state of affairs on my web-page, I became motivated to make things look better. Thanks to the magic of CSS I now have a rather consistent looking home page system. How odd and terribly frightening.

The big problem seems to be getting Gallery to work with it. They've done a great job on creating a PHP based system for displaying graphics, but it's not very extensible right now. The html_wrap directory only allows you to edit the headers and footers essentially of the system. So I hacked the code a bunch. This will most assuredly make it a headache to upgrade in the future, so read on only if you like headaches.

I wanted to use the same CSS file in all my pages, as such the util.php file contains the path/directory information for the gallery based CSS in a function better known as _getStyleSheetLink(). Note the leading underscore. Altering this to always return my common CSS file works for me. I don't plan on embedding this, so I really didn't care about many of it's options and just cleared them out.

One of the things about Gallery that really annoys me is the system for de-marking an album. I figured the text "album" was enough and absolutely despise the fake "many pictures" graphic they use. This was easy to remove, and cuts down on the downloading of at least 3 misc graphics from my web-server. In the html_wrap directory there is a file inline_gallerythumb.frame.default. Make this just inline_gallerythumb.frame and inside of the file the last 3 entries for the table can be removed safely. No more annoying layered picture image. You'll need to do this same thing for inline_albumthumb.frame as well, if you want to completely get rid of all occurrences.

Next to make the initial Gallery page text look familiar to the rest of the site I had to alter the album.php file. If you scan through it for the word "Cell" you should find a comment that says something like "begin Text Cell". You can edit that section to alter any of the text that appears on the main page. Why this isn't in the html_wrap I'm not sure.

I wanted to alter the album views of images, but when I did I didn't like the output. In the essence of full disclosure though, you can alter these in the view_album.php file. Searching for the word "Viewed" helps to find the appropriate section to edit.

The end result of all this is the entire site is based off of CSS. I'm now starting to realize why Marko has a tag on his page that says "Friends don't let friends used table-based layouts". Once you can get into the whole CSS thing it is a lot easier to work with and makes a helluva lot more sense.

The bad part about it is that older browsers are not CSS compliant. By older I mean browsers from the Netscape 4 timeframe. One thought on this end: if you're still using such an old browser it's time to upgrade. Give it up, that piece of non-standards compliant bloatware isn't going to go anywhere useful. Not saying that Mozilla doesn't have a lot of bloat, but there are things like Opera and Mozilla spinoffs that aren't so bad. More importnatly thought they support current web standards.

The really really nice part about all of this hacking... if I decide I'd like to change the color scheme or what not, I just have to edit the CSS file. I was playing around with this and it was really quite fun. Maybe I'll make the web page skin-able.... naw...

Posted by Dan at 07:35 AM | Comments (0)

February 22, 2003

As a whole

I've decided that my website looks like crap. Not that I ever intended it to be a web design award winner, but the current state of disjuncture that is my website was not what I wanted either. I tried to start a new design, one to incorporate some of my latest and greatest toys. It failed due to lack of interest and time.

I added in some links to the original website I've got here, so now others can see the photos, and about me stuff they've been dying to see. Enjoy! Eventually I'll figure out how to make Gallery work with the css file I'm using here. Until then, you'll have to deal with the mis-match of patterns.

As a side note, I've decided that I don't like the super graphical interface that MT is using. It's nice, it's fun, but when you get a slow connection it's a real bitch to work with. I might have to hack that up for a text only interface.

I've also just realized I forgot to enable TrackBack... how lovely.

[EDIT] It looks like I may have gotten most of the style sheet working in gallery. Hacks-r-us baby!

Posted by Dan at 06:55 AM | Comments (2)

February 21, 2003

Err...oops?

Kevin pointed out that my knowledge and use of HTML is poor at best, and that I cannot make hyperlinks if my life depended upon it. So I fixed that.

Posted by Dan at 05:43 AM | Comments (0)

February 18, 2003

First post!

Neener neener!

Testing things out...

So far I like the whole MT system. It seems rather crude and hackish in it's codebase, but it does seem to work very well. More importantly it's not that hard to setup and configure. I might submit some suggested language changes to the manual though.

Posted by Dan at 03:16 PM | Comments (0)